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Never miss a good opportunity to shut the fuck up

An open letter to the faculty person whom I usually like, but who should really just STFU about some stuff:

When you came into my office asking for a key to get into your office because you forgot yours (or locked them in your office earlier, or left them in your car, or some other situation that made your keys unavailable to you), I appreciated the fact that you apologized for interrupting my breakfast to ask for the keys. It's fine that you interrupted me. If I didn't want to be interrupted at my breakfast, I wouldn't eat it at my desk. What I didn't appreciate and what was not fine was your comment directed toward my breakfast.

"Is that a chicken wing?" you asked.

I responded, "It's a chicken thigh."

"Your diet is so weird!" you said, laughing, as you walked away.

Yeah. Okay, you know what, usually well-liked faculty member?

Fuck. You. I'm not even going to explain why that was a rude and unnecessary thing to say to me. Just fuck you and fuck your lapse of manners.

*frustrated sigh*

On a lighter subject, check out the latest entry on one of my favorite new Tumblrs. SFW!

I would really like to take tomorrow off work. A three day weekend of not sitting at my desk might be what my back needs to stop spasming. It always feels worse after I've been sitting for a period of time. Which reminds me--It's the top of the hour. Time to walk around.

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I used to eat bricks of cheese for lunch when I worked at Wal-Mart.

WHATEVA WHATEVA

Exactly! Why comment on it at all? And especially why comment when you (and by "you" I mean "this person") know about my myriad health problems and how a restricted eating program is the only thing that keeps me in the (questionable) good health I'm in right now?

I mean...seriously?

Oh, they commented on it. But it wasn't a thing of them questioning WHY I was eating it. Morelike just confirming that what they were seeing was really happening.

If she knows you have a restricted diet, that's kind of a dick thing to say. There are weirder things to eat for breakfast than chicken.

Some people, I tell you.

I LOVED that tumbler.

Also I'm sorry if I've ever made light of your diet. I agree your usually-well liked faculty member was out of line. Also should keep track of her own damn keys.

I would have slooooooooowly put down the chicken and just looked at her. And then said "Really. You think so?"

*fistbump*

I would have said something if she hadn't been walking out of my office as she made the comment.

I admit, I passive-aggressively gave her the cold shoulder when she returned the keys.

Things I might have said if I were you.
• Chickens are just small dinosaurs... and our natural masters.
• If you don't eat them they will eat YOU!
• The Sandwich was too fast for me.
• That kind of jealousy is beneath you.
• I planed on stapeling it to your FAT ASS. But I got bored.
• You're right... I should stick to the school sanctioned diet of
faculty corpses.
• You already ate all the bags of dicks...

OMFG that last one.

<3

WIN

In regards to Tumblr-- Gawd damnit. I need to freakin' sleep. Yeah, yeah. Free will. Whatever.

The 80's couldn't even do future fashion. And this Tumblr makes fun of it so wonderfully.

That's totally not weird. I love to eat protein for breakfast. When I was a kid, my father often cooked sausage patties for breakfast, and if he ran out of sausage, he'd just make us hamburgers. They were delicious. Anyway it's none of their damn business what you eat! It just shows a provincial mindset. And it is rude.

What's up? Chicken butt! Wonder why? Chicken thigh!

I carpooled with an English teacher who ate salmon and some other stuff from a bowl for breakfast. I wouldn't have minded, but she did it while driving!

whoa.
wow. really?
k, the language here is really odd in the entire first paragraph. she says it's fine that you interrupted her, but then she felt the need to repeat that THREE TIMES, which means that on some level she was offended to be interrupted.
and wtf with the parenthetical about your keys?

and then we have your light-hearted comment (seems to me that it's light hearted, plz tell me if i'm wrong) that she got totally bent outta shape about.

FUCK. HER. is right.

ETA:
i TOTALLY misunderstood!! YOU were the one interrupted!!
YOU are the one who got upset about the chicken comment. I guess i'm the one who needs the explanation. i don't see the comment as rude...maybe i misread the tone or something.

boy, i would sure be guiltier than sin of making comment about people's food. it's not usually chicken, though. usually it's stuff like "cheetos"

Edited 2012-02-24 09:01 (UTC)

Dude--your back is just hard-headed. I've been telling it for days now to stop hurting.

On a side note--do you think if I stop drinking hobo blood, that my kidneys will quit their occasional aching?

As someone who has multiple food issues and allergies, and has to restrict her "diet" considerably from what the vast majority of people (even gluten- and dairy-free people) think is normal (or even liveable), let me say that when someone laughingly dismisses my "diet" by saying it's "so weird," without even giving me a chance to respond, I get very VERY irritated.

You just don't do that. It's rude to laugh at someone's situation, mention it as a cavalier lifestyle choice, and then leave the conversation without giving the person a chance to respond.

Not cool.

your back is just hard-headed. I've been telling it for days now to stop hurting.

HA! It felt better when I woke up this morning, so maybe it's listening now.

I feel the same way about Tumblr. I am doing my damnedest to avoid getting pulled into Pinterest.

Anyway it's none of their damn business what you eat! It just shows a provincial mindset. And it is rude.

Yes. Thank you.

OMG how do people eat and drive? Maybe I focus more on my food than most people...I don't even like to eat while watching a movie or television...

:D

does she know you have food issues? Most folks seem to think others are in the majority unless they know otherwise. Here, the best example I can think of is sexuality...if you aren't wearing a big ole' banner that says you're gay, people think you're straight.

at any rate, I do in some sense, understand your position...when people say to me, "you don't DRINK?...like even ONE? why not?" It used to really upset me. After 26 years of that, I guess I realize that some people are just kinda dumb -but I think they're innocent-dumb...I used to just think they were dumb-dumb.

Also, in your OP, I thought the woman had actually SAID THOSE THINGS TO YOU in the first paragraph. If I'd read the comments first I would have known differently.

Yes, she knows about my food issues. She knows about most of my health issues.

when people say to me, "you don't DRINK?...like even ONE? why not?" It used to really upset me.

It would still upset me, were I in your place. You're obviously more generously-hearted than I am. =/

I'm sorry she said that, then. It does, indeed, really suck.

And boy, I sure did not mean to say that I'm more a more generous person. You are just right exactly as you are.

Awwww.

XOXO

Awkward person is awkward.

*fistbump*.. my brekkies is usually last night's leftovers, and my supper is more often bacon/eggs.

*bump* back atcha.

Fine if people want to treat breakfast as requiring special or different food, but I don't understand the need to tell me that because I eat breakfast the way I eat other meals it means I have some sort of "weird diet."

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